Austen Quote by George Sampson Download Open image “Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.” — George Sampson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Austen Feminine Feminine Feminine Peter Grew Grew up Jane Jane austen Letters Pan Letters Peter
“Jane Austen did not become one of the most renowned authors in the English language by having her characters dye their armpit hair and… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The red carpet stuff is brilliant because it's so fun. In terms of exposure, I think it's something that you can never get used… — George Sampson Copy Share Image
The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any… — George Sampson Copy Share Image
I dance for freedom. I dance for people's reaction more than anything. I feel great and I feel like I can do anything, say… — George Sampson Copy Share Image
Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or… — George Sampson Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“You know, somewhere a Jane Austen angel just lost her wings over you saying that.” — Nichole Van Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could… — Georgia King Copy Share Image
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